The One To Save Us All

Chapter 13. Death And Prelude To War Games

Ais couldn't believe her eyes at what she was seeing. It's been one day since Bell returned, and news of it has already spread across the entire city.

'Bell Cranel level 3 in less than one month'.

She felt a mixture of emotions right now, happy for him, for getting stronger so fast, yet she was also slightly jealous. What was he doing differently compared to her to get stronger? Was she not training hard enough, or was it something else.

Not only that, but when Riveria returned with him, she acted weirdly last night and just this morning, Loki did a status update and they found out, all Riveria has to do now is do a feat that the gods will acknowledge to become a level 7 as well.

"I need to talk to him" said Ais, feeling a slight warm feeling in her chest, which reminded her of when she levels up.

"HUH!? HOW DID HE BECOME A LEVEL 3 SO FAST!!" Screamed Lefiya in shock and anger.

Near her, Eowyn leaned next to her sister and whispered "is that good?" She asked, still not fully understanding the level up system.

"It's very good, he did something that normally takes us adventurers, years or in some cases decades, since most can't even make it to level 2, let alone to level 3" said Riniya.

"Wow, that is impressive" said Eowyn before her eyes went to Riveria, who was sitting at her table and had a gentle smile on her face and a tint of red on her cheeks and tips of her ears.

"Hehehe, I guess you haven't been working hard enough Lefiya" said Loki giggling.

That struck a nerve in her and she stood up "I'm gonna demand he takes me in the dungeon with him" she said storming off towards the door.

Now Ais pouted since she wanted to do that, but quickly realized they can both go with them and stood up and put on Bells jacket, that was now hers on and followed behind.

Riveria wouldn't admit it, but she was a bit jealous and wished she could join them, but that'd bring up far to many questions, so she reluctantly stayed here.

Elsewhere in the room, Alicia felt jealous and she quickly finished her meal and decided to join them, to see what it was that he did differently. Definitely not because she was jealous or anything, absolutely not, no way could she like Bell, even though he's nice and very handso-. Alicia froze at what her brain was thinking and quickly shook her head and continued walking, when though her face was cherry red.

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With Bell, he was hugging Rose while Zidril was making them tea. He went to go and see her last night, but when he did, he was wrapped in a hug and was met with a depressed Rose instead of her normally happy mood.

When asked why, she told him that she was fired for dating an adventurer and showing favoritism, plus given him extra funds from the guild, so she had a massive confiscation of her money and she barely had enough to last a week.

"It's ok Rose we will find a way around this" he said gently stroking her back to comfort her.

"Rose, if you want, you can sleep at my place until we figure this out" said Zidril as she put three cups of tea on the ground, then sat down next to Bell.

"Damn that Royman..." said Rose as she let out a growl "he just had to ruin our lives.. I had enough money set aside so... so I could take a couple years off and.. one day, raise our kids".

Bells eyes widened at that and a small part of him felt excited at the idea of starting a family, but the rest of him was angry at Royman for ruining Rose's future by taking almost every single valis she has.